{"id":26767,"date":"2015-10-20T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26767"},"modified":"2015-10-20T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:14:41","slug":"is-there-room-for-a-moderate-in-the-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26767","title":{"rendered":"Is There Room For A Moderate In The Democratic Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The stage for the Democratic Party<\/a> held a declared socialist, an undeclared socialist, a former governor who taxed rainfall, someone whose issue was bringing the metric system to America<\/a>, and a former Republican. Jim Webb<\/a> is the former Republican. He is also known as a very common-sense politician who tends to be toward the middle of the political spectrum<\/a>. USA Today<\/a> posted an article today stating that Jim Webb has dropped out of the Democratic race for President and is considering a run as an independent.<\/p>\n

So what are the implications of this? First of all, I suspect Jim Webb has already received a number of telephone calls from major Democrats asking him not to run as an independent. His running as an independent would give moderate Democrats an option in the Presidential race<\/a>. If the Democrats feel sufficiently threatened by Jim Webb as an independent candidate<\/a>, I am sure he will be\u00a0told that he is a contender for Vice President<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I seriously doubt that Jim Webb will run as an independent. Although I respect him as an independent thinker, the amount of pressure brought to bear to prevent that run will, I believe, prevent him from running.<\/p>\n

However, this has been a very unpredictable election cycle. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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